church
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Was working on a site rear stanstead airport some years back, nice easy touch just skimming walls and ceilings i think the houses were worth around £600 i was the only spread on site and was doing one and a bit houses per week not breaking into a sweat.I was getting behind the builders who had 3 houses ready in front off me, the agent said they had to get more spreads in which was fair enough, on this Friday a cortina Mk 4 turned up and out jumped this spread about mid 20s with two great gold earrings walks into my plot and starts talking as you do.
Alright mate how long it take you to do one of these then mate ! i said about 4 days, how much they worth then mate , i said £600 mate ...... fook that he said i want 2 of them a week bah bah bah, anyway he walks next door 10 Min's later he comes back I'm not starting in there S*** everywhere tacking is rough bah bah he said anyway drives off, mean while the tackers been pulled on some of his work the labourers are cleaning out the next house.
Monday comes and the spread is back i don't see him all week till the Friday 12oc ish that's me done 2 houses doddle mate £1200 quid lovely you wanna speed up mate lol..... ok i said i will he says his good byes and goes, a couple of hours later agent walks in and shouts you seen what that fooking spread as done ? no mate i said laughing, come and have a look the agent says ........ well there was plaster everywhere all over the stairs , windows the ceilings looked one coated he'd missed 3-4 sets of reveals missed the cupboard under the stairs the ceiling and one wall in the cupboard upstairs most of the walls on the first floor was not low enough to be covered by the skiting not it could be fixed it was so messy , he'd been using two car tyres lashed together as a hop up which he'd left behind there must of been 30 empty bags of crisps cans of coke everywhere you get the picture. Anyway his work had to be put right by me on day work i never saw the lad again but is funny the people you meet on site? i wonder if he got paid i never found that out .
Alright mate how long it take you to do one of these then mate ! i said about 4 days, how much they worth then mate , i said £600 mate ...... fook that he said i want 2 of them a week bah bah bah, anyway he walks next door 10 Min's later he comes back I'm not starting in there S*** everywhere tacking is rough bah bah he said anyway drives off, mean while the tackers been pulled on some of his work the labourers are cleaning out the next house.
Monday comes and the spread is back i don't see him all week till the Friday 12oc ish that's me done 2 houses doddle mate £1200 quid lovely you wanna speed up mate lol..... ok i said i will he says his good byes and goes, a couple of hours later agent walks in and shouts you seen what that fooking spread as done ? no mate i said laughing, come and have a look the agent says ........ well there was plaster everywhere all over the stairs , windows the ceilings looked one coated he'd missed 3-4 sets of reveals missed the cupboard under the stairs the ceiling and one wall in the cupboard upstairs most of the walls on the first floor was not low enough to be covered by the skiting not it could be fixed it was so messy , he'd been using two car tyres lashed together as a hop up which he'd left behind there must of been 30 empty bags of crisps cans of coke everywhere you get the picture. Anyway his work had to be put right by me on day work i never saw the lad again but is funny the people you meet on site? i wonder if he got paid i never found that out .